Considering of individual learning style of professionally oriented English communication in the conditions of student’s autonomous learning

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of considering the student’s individual learning styles in the process of foreign language learning in the autonomous learning environment. The article provides a definitive analysis of the term “learning style”. It is cleared up that learning styles are composed of three groups of factors that influence the intellectual and psychological processes of the foreign language learning: channels of perception; psychological types; styles of thinking. Each group of factors consists of a series of cognitive styles that are based on the classifications of different researchers. The channels of perception include: visual, auditory and tactile (kinesthetic and mechanical). The bases of psychological types are various combinations of the following types: introverted and extroverted, random and sequential, concrete and intuitive, perceptive and evaluative. Styles of thinking or cognitive educational styles include such binary properties as field-dependent and field-independent, impulsive and reflective, global and particular, synthesizing and analytic, sharpeners and levelers, deductive and inductive, metaphoric and literal and others. It has been discovered that all types of thinking styles can be combined into a common two-way concept, which is divided into two groups: holistic and analytic. The article describes the types of educational activities that are inherent in different educational styles. It is proved that the proposed classification of three groups of factors is optimal for the further development of autonomous learning of professionally oriented English-speaking communication of students. In the article the interrelated aspects of educational styles are observed, as well as the algorithm of organization of educational activities of students with different individual educational styles is considered.